Raymond Dieter, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Knoxville, TNNPI 1063405603
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.6% of the total across 221 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 40 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 28.5% of the total.
Across 221 payments — averaging $34.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
- Abbott$968
- Atricure, Inc.$614
- Boston Scientific$426
- Abiomed$425
- plus $2K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6178%
- Food & beverage$6,93692%
- Education$200%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 24 | $2,160 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 61 | $1,002 |
| Abbott | 24 | $968 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 23 | $614 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $426 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $425 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $197 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $169 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 5 | $127 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $119 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $118 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 5 | $109 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $106 |
| Stryker | 3 | $94 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $83 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $78 |
| BD | 2 | $78 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $73 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $63 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Merck | 2 | $40 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $32 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $24 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $22 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $18 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $18 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$7,572 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 36 | $308 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 35 | $162 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Knoxville
- Christian ProbstKnoxville$25K
- Sean JordanKnoxville$8K
- Christina GlennKnoxville$7K
- David GrahamKnoxville$6K
- Kimberly LindenKnoxville$6K
- William McAlexanderKnoxville$5K
- Carlo Martinez TorresKnoxville$5K
- William WalkerKnoxville$4K
- Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
- V ReddyNashville$760K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.